Scalability
03/07/2012 | Written by: uspta
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Scalability
Description:
The video defines the concept of scalability – the ability to modify a drill to any skill level considering the speed, spin, height, depth, direction and frequency of your feeds.
Tip:
As a tennis-teaching professional you get to work with many types of players of different ages and playing abilities. Your students might be young children, juniors, adults or senior players. Some of them are advanced, some are complete beginners and some might be on their way to a professional career. For this reason, a successful coach is one who can work with any playing level or age and scale drills and practices accordingly.
The concept of scalability is defined as the ability to present something(a drill for example) in its simplest form and present that same material in a more advanced way, altering a few key variables to make the material more challenging as a student advances. In order to scale a drill up or down to a particular player’s level, there are six feeding variables that can be changed according to a player’s skill level: speed, height, depth, direction, frequency and spin. These six variables can make the same drill work effectively for various playing levels, from beginner to advanced. With beginner players, the speed, height and depth will be the main variables, and as the player’s skills improve, direction, frequency and spin can be introduced to add more difficulty.
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